Hooking up soundcard to mixer

[the3kgt2]

I have a really easy question. I have an M-Audio Delta Audiophile 192 sound card with:
Main Input (connects to mixer)
Main Output (sound before it gets to my software)
Monitor Output (the sound after software)

I have a Behringer Xenyx 802 mixer with:
Main Out
Tape In/Out
Stereo Aux Return
Control Room Out (going to my monitor speakers)

My question...which inputs/outputs on the mixer should be used to connect to my sound card? Should Main In/Out on my soundcard go to Tape In/Out on the mixer? Does Monitor Out on my soundcard go to Stereo Aux Return?

Thanks a ton in advance. I really like reading through this forum.

[brandondrury]

These are all good questions. However, it's difficult to say exactly without having your mixer right here in front of me.

The dumb answer is: Use any outputs of your mixer that work. However, that answer is a bit short sighted. Are you using the mixer for monitoring or are you monitoring in your recording software. In other words, if you adjust the level on your vocal track you are recording, will you hear it change? This is what I do, but I need to know how you tweak the headphone mix before I can help you hook it up.

Brandon

[CyberCat]

Mixer's main out goes to Soundcard's main in.
SC's monitor out to headphones or studio monitors (not to mixer in)